What is it?
A sludge dryer is a device used to reduce the moisture content of sludge, a semi-solid slurry produced in various industrial processes, primarily wastewater treatment. It achieves this by evaporating water, typically through the application of heat, often indirectly, and then drying the remaining solids.
Purpose:
- Reduce Volume: Sludge dryers aim to decrease the volume of sludge, making it more manageable for storage, transportation, and final disposal or reuse.
- Produce a Stabilized Product: Drying can result in a stabilized product, meaning it's less likely to be putrescent, free of pathogenic organisms, and has a higher organic carbon concentration and calorific value.
- Prepare for Further Treatment: Dried sludge may be more suitable for thermochemical treatments, such as incineration, or for use as a fuel source.
- Enhance Handling: Drying can convert the sludge into a more manageable, dry, granular material, easier to handle and transport than a wet slurry.
How it Works?
We at Malhari Projects, designed Radiating Dryers with high drying potentials, from fast, accelerated drying to gentle, prolonged drying. A radiating dryer is widely used in industries such as Chemicals, Dyes & Pigments, ETP, CETP, Pharmaceuticals, APIs, Formulations, food & drugs, Municipals, etc. For hyper-critical processes, we also provide a vacuum-based model.
Our Sludge dryers work by using radiation to evaporate moisture from sludge, reducing its volume and weight. This process, called Radiating Drying, is a key step in sludge treatment, making it easier to store, transport, and potentially use the sludge in various applications.
The feed with high moisture content is dropped from the hopper into the Dryer. This material is conveyed in the chamber from one end to another end. Meanwhile, during the travel length the material is exposed to radiations which helps to reduce the moisture and makes it granular or powder form at the end.
Core Benefit:
- No steam required.
- Operational cost of drying: 0.99 to 1.5 INR/Kgs.
- Very Compact, Plug and Play type.
- Moisture reduced to less than 10%.
- Industrial Sludge compatible.
Salient Features:
- Continuous Process. No batch type drying.
- Operational Cost Reduction By 60-80%
- Low Energy Consumption.
- Smooth Material Handling.
- Totally Electrically Operated
- No steam or any thermal Fluid required.
- Modifiable as per need and space availability.
Industries Benefited:
- Companies handling high moisture sludge and hazardous waste.
